Books Quote by Tom Turner

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard…

— Bill Bryson

“Map 2. Locations and dates of agricultural revolutions. The data is contentious, and the map is constantly being redrawn to incorporate the latest archaeological discoveries.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Trying to look at the whole of the past is, it seems to me, like using a map of the world. No geographer would…

— David Christian

A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

What satellites help to show us is we've actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all over the…

— Sarah Parcak

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

— Peter Steinhart

Geography is the art of the mappable.

— Peter Haggett

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

— Max Fisher

I do think the smaller-scale studio works have that incredible love of data crunching, whereas I would say the large-scale earthworks tend to be…

— Maya Lin

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape…

— Penelope Lively

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

— David Mitchell

A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

— Ellen Meloy